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On The Market
27 Jun 2021
Rathmore Cottage, Aughnacliffe, Co Longford has come on the market.
This bright ultra modern detached home is set on one acre just outside the village of Aughnacliff and only a few minutes drive to the scenic Lough Gowna, Strattens Shore and Leebeen Park.
This would make a fantastic first time buyers home or family home as theres huge potential to extend subject to planning permssion.
By Sean Smith, Contributor to BostonIrish
April 28, 2021
‘A clatter more’ from Andy Irvine
Andy Irvine, “Old Dog, Long Road, Vol. 2” • When Irvine released “Old Dog, Long Road, Vol. 1” two years ago, he suggested the possibility of a follow-up: “If this album is well received,” he wrote in the liner notes, “there will be a clatter more!” Irvine fans have apparently done their part, because here’s another double-CD helping of rare or previously unreleased recordings from 1961 to 2015 of Irvine, solo and in various collaborations, made in studios, concert halls, clubs, and pubs, and even at home. It’s one more welcome opportunity to appreciate the talents, skills, inventiveness, and imagination of this most influential singer, songwriter, and musician, a cornerstone of the modern Irish music revival.
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Inside this incredible contemporary lakeside home in Co Cavan
Picture a beautiful landscape, a wild field and woodlands, facing the calm waters of a midlands lake. It’s a challenge for any architect: to create a building that not only sits in the landscape, but augments it.
Some build long and low, hoping, perhaps, not to be noticed, while others, such as Coleraine-based architect team Jessica McGarry and Steven Moon, bring their sensitivity to site, shape and material, to make a space that becomes a special presence.
At Lough Gowna in Co Cavan, they have designed a contemporary home for their clients, which manages both to complement the setting while also being a feature and a focal point, “an object in the landscape”, as Steven puts it. Lough Gowna’s name means “calf lake” and comes from an old legend of a calf, which, having escaped from a holy well, raced north. It was followed by a stream of well water that flooded the surrounds, making the lake. With such a supe